MOUNT EVEREST
BRITISH UNO EXPEDITION MEMBERS SAIL FOB INDIA (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, January 19. Mr Hugh Ruttledge, the leader, and four other members of the British expedition which is to attempt to reach the summit of Everest will leave England for India to-morrow. _ All the 14 members will meet at Darjeeling early in March, and in the middle of that month the whole expedition, including about 'BO porters and a transport column of baggage-laden donkeys, and mules, will set out on a five weeks trek across Tibet to the base camp, situated about twelve miles from Everest at an altitude of nearly l,ooott higher than the summit of Mount Blanc. , The attack on the mountain is timed to take place before the middle of June, when the monsoon may probably be expected.
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Evening Star, Issue 21316, 21 January 1933, Page 13
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137MOUNT EVEREST Evening Star, Issue 21316, 21 January 1933, Page 13
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